Monday, February 12, 2018, 4:15 PM
In Spain there are around 2.5 million people who suffer from anxiety, about 2 million live with depression and 1.6 million people between 15 and 64 who have an alcohol consumption of risk.
Pathologies that have a slow on many occasions diagnosis that can be shortened thanks to technology. This is the bet of Juan Bellón, researcher at the Málaga-Valle sanitary district of Guadalhorce, which designed the web Predict plus prevent That makes it possible to predict, little Less than eight minutesIf an episode of fear, depression or alcohol risk use will be suffered in the following year.
The web, in Spanish and English, is made of algorithms that have demonstrated their validity in earlier studies. “We were the first in the world to develop and validates risk algorithms to predict depression, anxiety and alcohol risk consultation in various studies where around 4,000 Spanish patients and 6,000 patients have participated in other European countries,” Bellón explains.
These “Risk Calculators” are those that are now used on this website, so that citizens who suffer none of these pathologies They can predict the appearance of future episodes. With the website you can choose whether you want to calculate one, two or three options (anxiety, depression and alcohol risk association), and the time needed to answer the questions, if the three options are chosen, it is approximately eight minutes.
Once the questions have been answered, a score is obtained according to a scale of intervals from the highest to lower risk, and the score is achieved to the “Prevention” tab, which shows possible solutions depending on the risk level Up to and including 23 self -help brochures on different issues.
Thus, if, for example, it indicates a high risk of depression in next year, it is proposed to reduce the risk of exercising, achieving a more recovering dream, improving social relationships, avoiding a toxic or treating a physical problem.
